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Topic: Sanitizer ingredients (Read 2622 times)

I've been teaching a beginning homebrew class. Last night, one of the guys in the class told me that he had a friend that worked for a restaurant supply store who had hooked him up with a no rinse sanitizer called "Solution QA". The active ingredients are n-alkyl (50% C14, 40% C12, 10% C16) dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride. Anybody ever heard of this stuff or know anything about the ingredients?

"Quats" are the most common sanitizers for food service. They're really nasty for your skin and (especially) lungs, and they require fairly high concentrations, around 250 ppm, to be effective. I can't think of any reason they couldn't be used in a brewery; I've just never seen it.

I heard from someone in food proceeding that you don't want it on anything contacting product, so it would not work well in home brewing. No science there, but getting it cheap doesn't justify wrecking a beer, potentially. This is one of those areas that one of the mainstream products would be best to be recommended IMO.